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Annie Oakley

Author : Shirl Kasper
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806156066
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Annie Oakley written by Shirl Kasper and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing more simple, I assure you. . . . But I’ll tell you what. You must have your mind, your nerve, and everything in harmony. Don’t look at your gun, simply follow the object with the end of it, as if the tip of the barrel was the point of your finger.”—Annie Oakley Annie Oakley is a legend: America’s greatest female sharpshooter, a woman who triumphed in the masculine world of road shows and firearms. Despite her great fame, the popular image of Annie Oakley is far from true. She was neither a swaggering western gal nor a sweet little girl. Annie Oakley was a competitive woman resolved to be the best, and she succeeded. In this comprehensive biography Shirl Kasper sets the record straight, giving us an accurate, honest, and compelling portrait of the woman known as “Little Sure Shot.” Now updated with a new afterword, this account illuminates the life and legend of Annie Oakley, including her start as a comedienne, her later life with Frank Butler, and her final years and struggles.

The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley

Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135069
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley written by Glenda Riley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of America's greatest female sharpshooter delves beneath her popular image to reveal a conservative but competitive woman who wanted to succeed.

Annie Oakley

Author : Courtney Ryley Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Annie Oakley written by Courtney Ryley Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annie Oakley

Author : Facts On File, Incorporated
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438132328
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Annie Oakley written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Phoebe Ann Mosey on August 13, 1860, on the rural western border of Ohio, Annie Oakley began hunting at age 9 to support her siblings and widowed mother. She became so skilled at selling the hunted game that she was able to pay off the mortgage to her mother's farm when she was 15. In 1885, she joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show where she became one of the top acts, along with Sitting Bull. In fact, she even traveled to Europe and performed for Queen Victoria and other crowned heads of state. At the request of the Prince of Prussia, she shot the ashes off a cigarette. Adventurous and brave, Oakley offered her services and 50 lady sharpshooters to President William McKinley during the Spanish-American War, but her offer was not accepted. She continued to show courage, suing and winning a libel case against newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst after he published a false story about her. In her 60s, Oakley supported women's rights and other causes and continued to set shooting records until a year before her death in 1926. In Annie Oakley, read about this remarkable woman whose sharpshooting skills and quick wit won her many fans and admirers.

Who Was Annie Oakley?

Author : Stephanie Spinner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101640065
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Who Was Annie Oakley? written by Stephanie Spinner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley! Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting, horse-riding, action-packed performances. In an age when most women stayed home, she traveled the world and forged a new image for American women.

Annie Oakley

Author : Sandra J. Hiller
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477771859
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Annie Oakley written by Sandra J. Hiller and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Oakley was a real woman who became a legend through her extraordinary life and skills. She was crack shot with a rifle and became a star attraction of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. She also became a symbol of Americans’ indomitable spirit and the thirst for adventure and opportunity that drove people to expand westward into unknown territory.

Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Author : Isabelle S. Sayers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048614075X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West written by Isabelle S. Sayers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the life and career of Annie Oakley. More than 100 rare photographs, posters, handbills, and other memorabilia chronicle her life, especially her 17 years touring with Buffalo Bill.

America's Best Female Sharpshooter

Author : Julia Bricklin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806158018
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book America's Best Female Sharpshooter written by Julia Bricklin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, most remember “California Girl” Lillian Frances Smith (1871–1930) as Annie Oakley’s chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows’ female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley’s conservative “prairie beauty” persona clashed with Smith’s tendency to wear flashy clothes and keep company with the cowboys and American Indians she performed with. This lively first biography chronicles the Wild West showbiz life that Smith led and explores the talents that made her a star. Drawing on family records, press accounts, interviews, and numerous other sources, historian Julia Bricklin peels away the myths that enshroud Smith’s fifty-year career. Known as “The California Huntress” before she was ten years old, Smith was a professional sharpshooter by the time she reached her teens, shooting targets from the back of a galloping horse in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West. Not only did Cody offer $10,000 to anyone who could beat her, but he gave her top billing, setting the stage for her rivalry with Annie Oakley. Being the best female sharpshooter in the United States was not enough, however, to differentiate Lillian Smith from Oakley and a growing number of ladylike cowgirls. So Smith reinvented herself as “Princess Wenona,” a Sioux with a violent and romantic past. Performing with Cody and other showmen such as Pawnee Bill and the Miller brothers, Smith led a tumultuous private life, eventually taking up the shield of a forged Indian persona. The morals of the time encouraged public criticism of Smith’s lack of Victorian femininity, and the press’s tendency to play up her rivalry with Oakley eventually overshadowed Smith’s own legacy. In the end, as author Julia Bricklin shows, Smith cared more about living her life on her own terms than about her public image. Unlike her competitors who shot to make a living, Lillian Smith lived to shoot.

Calamity

Author : Karen R. Jones
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252129
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Calamity written by Karen R. Jones and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary’s life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary’s career. Spanning Canary’s rise from humble origins to her role as “heroine of the plains” and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive—and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.

Silk and Steel

Author : Robert L Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510709274
Total Pages : 1317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Silk and Steel written by Robert L Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 1317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silk and Steel: Women at Arms is the first comprehensive presentation on the subject of women and firearms. No object has had a greater impact on world history over the past 650 years than the firearm, and Wilson shows how women have played a vital role in its development. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Epiphany in the Wilderness

Author : Karen R. Jones
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457197545
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Epiphany in the Wilderness written by Karen R. Jones and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy.Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploits in autobiographical accounts and stage shows.Epiphany in the Wilderness informs various academic debates surrounding the frontier period, including the construction of nature as a site of personal challenge, gun culture, gender adaptations and the crafting of the masculine wilderness hero figure, wildlife management and consumption, memorializing and trophy-taking, and the juxtaposition of a closing frontier with an emerging conservation movement."

Bull's-Eye (Direct Mail Edition)

Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780792259336
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Bull's-Eye (Direct Mail Edition) written by Sue Macy and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and times of the markswoman and performer who achieved fame with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.

The Second Amendment and Gun Control

Author : Kevin Yuill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351783335
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Second Amendment and Gun Control written by Kevin Yuill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Amendment, by far the most controversial amendment to the US Constitution, will soon celebrate its 225th anniversary. Yet, despite the amount of ink spilled over this controversy, the debate continues on into the 21st century. Initially written with a view towards protecting the nascent nation from more powerful enemies and preventing the tyranny experienced during the final years of British rule, the Second Amendment has since become central to discussions about the balance between security and freedom. It features in election contests and informs cultural discussions about race and gender. This book seeks to broaden the discussion. It situates discussion about gun controls within contemporary debates about citizenship, culture, philosophy and foreign policy as well as in the more familiar terrain of politics and history. It features experts on the Constitution as well as chapters discussing the symbolic importance of Annie Oakley, the role of firearms in race, and filmic representations of armed Hispanic girl gangs. It asks about the morality of gun controls and of not imposing them. The collection presents a balanced view between those who favour more gun controls and those who would prefer fewer of them. It is infused with the belief that through honest and open debate the often bitter cultural divide on the Second Amendment can be overcome and real progress made. It contains a diverse range of perspectives including, uniquely, a European perspective on this most American of issues.

Bull's Eye

Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : National Geographic Photobiogr
ISBN 13 : 1426322186
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Bull's Eye written by Sue Macy and published by National Geographic Photobiogr. This book was released on 2015 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of Annie Oakley, both the fact and the myth.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World

Author : Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World written by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful full color litho cover, stagecoach under attack from Indians, cameo portrait of W.F. Cody.

The Trials of Annie Oakley

Author : Howard Kazanjian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493017470
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Annie Oakley written by Howard Kazanjian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the silver screen showed the face of Mary Pickford to millions of Americans, Annie Oakley, born as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses on August 13, 1860, had won the right to the title of “America’s Sweetheart.” Having grown up learning to shoot game to help support her family, Annie won first prize and met Frank Butler at a shooting match when she was fifteen years old. He convinced her to change her name to Annie Oakley and became her husband, manager, and number-one fan for the next fifty years. Annie quickly gained worldwide fame as an incredible crack shot, and could amaze audiences at her uncanny accuracy with nearly any rifle or pistol, whether aiming at stationary objects or shooting fast-flying targets from the cockpit of a moving airplane. In August 1903, when she was well known as a champion shot in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Oakley became a target of defamation by a reporter for a newspaper owned by media magnate William Randolph Hearst. The libelous story alleged that the famous sure shot had been arrested for stealing and buying drugs. Annie sent a telegram denying the claim and asked the story to be retracted. Hearst refused and the story was then published in all his newspapers. Miss Oakley responded with a libel suit and spent seven years in court fighting the well-known businessman. During the long, drawn-out legal battle, Annie was struggling with health issues. Despite these trials she poured her energy into advocating for the US military, encouraging women to engage in sport shooting, and supporting orphans.

Fortune's Fool

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : LUNA
ISBN 13 : 1426814828
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Fool written by Mercedes Lackey and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom…and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped! Trapped in a castle at the mercy of a possessive Jinn, Ekaterina knows her chances of being found are slim. Now fortune, a fool and a paper bird are the only things she can count on-along with her own clever mind and intrepid heart.…